Sexual assault, at any time, this word is extremely ugly, and among them, child sexual abuse is the worst.
I don't know how many people, like me, have been deeply shocked by "The Melting Pot".
Today, the movie we want to talk about is also related to child sexual abuse, which can be called the Taiwanese version of "Melting Pot".
"Silent"
Zhang Cheng is a deaf teenager who has just transferred to Qi Cong School under the arrangement of his family.
In this school, which is specially opened for deaf and mute children, Zhang Cheng does not have to bear the strange eyes projected on him by other peers with normal hearing. Here, he can enjoy campus life happily, at first, he thought so.
Not long after transferring, Zhang Cheng discovered the dirty secrets hidden in this seemingly beautiful campus. In the last row of the school bus he needs to ride every day, there are frequent incidents of student sexual assault, and his friend Babe, whom he has just met, is one of the victims.
A senior named Xiao Guang openly ordered other students to sexually assault Babe on the school bus, and under his threat, no one dared to resist.
What surprised Zhang Cheng even more was that after the sexual assault, Babe continued to play with this group of male classmates who had just sexually assaulted her like a person who had nothing to do. Zhang Cheng could not understand and did not want such a thing to continue to happen, and he wanted to pull Bei Bei to teacher Wang for help, but Bei Bei refused him.
Because in her opinion: telling the teacher is useless.
It turned out that a year ago, Babe was sexually assaulted by boys led by XiaoGuang.
But the seniors in front of her couldn't hear her voice, and the tutor who followed the car was indifferent.
She also tried to write down her own experience in the weekly journal, but the teachers still turned a blind eye. When she finally plucked up the courage to ask the teacher for help in person, the teacher with the average level of sign language knew nothing about her words and was very impatient to perfunctory.
In order not to cause trouble for her grandparents, Babe began to numb herself and began to comfort herself with the words "they are normally very good". However, this matter finally let Teacher Wang know, and after some investigation, he found that what happened to Babe was not in the minority.
In this school, there are no less than a hundred similar sexual assaults.
However, his investigation not only did not allow justice to be done, but the students who were questioned became angry with him and beat Teacher Wang fiercely together.
Xiao Guang even shamelessly threatened him with The Safety of Babe, forcing him to violate a student.
And used the recorded video to report him as a sexual predator.
The reason why this film is called the Taiwanese version of "The Melting Pot" is because it is also based on real events.
The Kai Cong School is also real, and it was not until 11 years that the dark inside story of this school was exposed by social justice people. After the investigation, the truth of the matter is even more creepy.
In the past 8 years, there have been 164 or a total of 164 sexual assaults and indecent assaults at the school, with 92 victims, the youngest of whom are in the second grade of primary school.
And the place where the sexual assault incident can be rampant in the school for 8 years, the school can not escape the blame.
As early as 2005, some girls had already reported to the teacher in their diaries that they had been sexually assaulted by their classmates.
But the expectant girl waited only for the teacher's cold response: "If the teacher helps you, who will help the teacher?" ”
The most chilling thing in the whole film is the line "play together", in the mouth of the school, "play together" is their statement to hide the truth, and in the mouth of the students, "play together" is their grand excuse.
The reason why Bei Bei would rather endure the violation than Zhang Cheng and Teacher Wang to help her is because in her opinion, once the matter is exposed, she will no longer be able to attend this school.
In the outside world, she will be treated as an alien, subject to those strange eyes.
And Xiao Guang, who violated Babe, was actually a victim at the earliest, and since the fourth grade, he has been subjected to the obscenity of an art teacher for 4 years.
Even though the principal already knew what happened to Xiaoguang, she kept a blind eye because the art teacher's backstage was very hard.
In this way, after repeated violations and fruitless requests for help, Xiao Guang's heart gradually twisted, and finally became another perpetrator.
Like the name of the film, the victims cannot speak, their cries are not taken seriously by the outside world, and in the silence of others, the acts of harm are intensifying.
As with the "melting pot incident" in South Korea, even if the matter is exposed by the righteous, the perpetrators still do not get the punishment they deserve.
Although the school's management was eventually impeached, the end result was only a trivial demotion and demerit.
As for the principal, who remained silent and even claimed to let the girl marry the sexual abuser, he also successfully retired.
Maybe right now, at the moment I type, there are still people being violated somewhere in the world, but I can only pray that in the future, there will be fewer and fewer similar things until nothing.
Unlike sexual assault in ordinary schools, children in such special schools are abnormal people, and they report to each other to gain a sense of security, so if the price of sexual assault is to get them out of this group, the sense of fear is unimaginable to others.
Just as in "Fang Siqi's First Love Paradise", Fang Siqi, who has not been truly loved, can only imagine herself as the psychological dynamic of falling in love with a sexual predator in order to alleviate her emotions.
Isolating the victims has always been a massacre.